As the demonic aura around the Yuan Sect's three headmasters—Heaven, Earth, and Man—grew thicker and they looked less and less human, the headmasters of the other six great sects felt their scalps go numb.
Wait, fellow Daoists, you really were connected to the Alien Demon Clan?
Then you should have said so! If you had told us earlier, we wouldn't have run. Now it looked as though we were your accomplices.
What was the point? Why stop being decent people and leaders of the Eastern Xuan Region just to turn yourselves into something neither human nor demon?
"Nothing to say? Or have you seen what happened to your companions and lost your nerve?" Qin Sheng asked coolly.
The Supreme Purity Palace Master recovered from her shock. She looked at Ying Xuanzi and the others and demanded, "Have you truly thrown in your lot with the Alien Demon Clan too?"
Could it be that, in the vast Eastern Xuan Region, only my Nine Heavens Supreme Pure Palace remained clean and loyal to the Heavenly Profound Continent?
No wonder Senior Qin came to us under Taishang's guidance.
"We've been wronged, fellow Daoist! We've been wronged, Senior Qin!" The Talisman Sect's headmaster jolted and hurried to explain.
"We—no, the Talisman Sect—have absolutely nothing to do with the Yuan Sect or the Otherworldly Demons."
"Senior Qin, the Sword Sect would rather break than bend. We cannot share the same sky as the Otherworldly Demons. We would never collude with them."
"The Myriad Puppet Valley—"
Everyone rushed to explain, offering proof of their innocence from every angle. They were just short of pointing to heaven and earth and swearing oaths.
"Then why did you all run the moment it happened?" the Supreme Purity Palace Master demanded.
And that was our fault?
*You came in swinging